I mean any type of animal killing is horrible (tho unfortunately I am a meat eater so I can't go too much into that without feeling horribly hypocritical) - but idk halal+ kosher just seems even worse.
As far as I'm concerned, I want to end slaughter and the commodification of animals - the difference between kosher and conventional is a minor issue in that aspect, considering the catastrophic environmental damage caused by animal agriculture. I see a lot of people really outraged by Halal production, which is great - a lot of meat eaters can be genuinely concerned about animal welfare, they just don't realize that their contributing to unnecessary harm themselves. It's a good opportunity for people to make the connection, do some research people!
Halal is believed to help drain the blood fully out of the vessels. If you chop the head of the animal in one go... The blood clots and remains inside the vessels and meat and gives a bad a taste... The whole purpose of cutting animals is that they taste well as food...
I'm Muslim and I can only eat halal meat. Meat that isn't halal, such as pork, is forbidden. Halal meat is actually very good, I'd recommend you to try it sometime.
The whole point is to drain the blood outside of the body. If the meat was cut/killed without fully draining out the blood, it is considered haram (forbidden). Also, halal meat means that you killed the animal in the name of Allah. Most companies just kill the meat without any care.
I'm Muslim and I can only eat halal meat. Meat that isn't halal, such as pork, is forbidden. Halal meat is actually very good, I'd recommend you to try it sometime.
I'm sorry but animals will suffer whether you eat meat (they kill animals so you can eat them) or having a vegan/vegetarian diet (they kill animals to protect crops/have bigger planting surfaces/etc).
Yeah it's awful but that's how it works.As long as you eat the animal and don't let it rot there... It's justified .
I'm sorry but animals will suffer whether you eat meat (they kill animals so you can eat them) or having a vegan/vegetarian diet (they kill animals to protect crops/have bigger planting surfaces/etc).
Yeah it's awful but that's how it works.As long as you eat the animal and don't let it rot there... It's justified .
I agree with you - it's awful. I do, however, just want to point out that a vegan diet will always be far less destructive. What's easy to forget is that the animals who are slaughtered to become people's meat have to eat themselves - accounting for a far larger amount of destruction than if humans just went to the source and sustained themselves solely through crops. There are two primary types of animal deaths in agriculture: animals slaughtered directly for food, and animals killed in the harvesting of crops. Only one - the latter - can occur solely. When animals are killed for slaughter, animals will be killed in the harvesting of crops. See what I'm getting at? The diets aren't equal in their killing of animals - those who choose to eat animals (who are fed grains and other crops) are causing the same trivial amount of additional suffering as vegans PLUS the additional death of the animals they are eating/wearing/using.
This came in the conclusion of a 2009 study into the number of animals killed to produce one million calories across eight food categories:
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It is critical to point out that chicken, pork, and at least 85 percent of beef is fattened in a feedlot on corn grown on land that could be divided between growing food for direct human consumption and wildlife habitats[17]. The gain of human edible calories achieved by grazing cattle is not much of a benefit considering that there is enough suitable cropland to grow enough calories to feed everyone without the additional calories gained from raising cattle on pasture, and that cattle grazing has an environmental cost. Cattle are a non-native species to the United States, and cattle grazing is destructive to the environment in numerous ways, including soil loss to erosion, reduced survival of seedling trees, and loss of species diversity[18].
The results of this estimation show that a diet that includes animal products will result in more animal deaths than a plant-based diet with the same number of calories. The production of chicken meat results in vastly more animal deaths than any other category of food. Based on this estimation, someone wanting to modify their eating habits in order to reduce animal suffering and death should start by removing chicken from their diet, then eggs. Although beef may cause more animal deaths than pork, pork probably causes more suffering, because most of the beef-related deaths are wild animals, and in comparison, a greater number of the pork-related deaths are factory farmed animals. The most animal suffering and death can be prevented by following a vegan diet.
This post is as much for you as it is for anybody having a looking at - I don't wish to attack you in the slightest, and I'm not at all trying to make myself look better than you, or to belittle you in the process. If any of the things I've posted are of interest to you (or anybody), feel free to PM me anytime. Much love
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